May 2008 arXiv papers — page 14

Xinran Wang, Scott Tabakman, Hongjie Dai

We investigate Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of metal oxide on pristine and functionalized graphene. On pristine graphene, ALD coating can only actively grow on edges and defect sites, where dangling bonds or surface groups react with ALD precursors. This affords a simple method to decorate and probe single defect sites in graphene planes. We used perylene t

H. T. Ng, S. Bose

We study two trapped ions coupled to the axial phonon modes of a one-dimensional Coulomb crystal. This system is formally equivalent to the "two spin-boson" model. We propose a scheme to dynamically generate a maximally entangled state of two ions within a decoherence-free subspace. Here the phononic environment of the trapped ions, whatever its temp

Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo

Aims: Implement a matched filter (MF) cross-correlation algorithm in multipole space and compare it to the standard Angular Cross Power Spectrum (ACPS) method. Apply both methods on a Integrated Sachs Wolfe (ISW) - Large Scale Structure (LSS) cross correlation scenario and study how sky masks influence the multipole range where signal arises and its comparis

N. A. Sinitsyn, V. V. Dobrovitski, S. Urazhdin, A. Saxena

We propose a method, which enables precise control of magnetic patterns, relying only on the fundamental properties of the wire and the choice of the path in the controlled parameter space but not on the rate of motion along this path. Possible experimental realizations of this mechanism are discussed. In particular, we show that the domain walls in magnetic

Anthony R. Gorges, Nicholas S. Bingham, Michael K. DeAngelo, Mathew S. Hamilton

We have studied hetero- and homonuclear excited state/ground state collisions by loading both $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb into a far off resonant trap (FORT). Because of the relatively weak confinement of the FORT, we expect the hyperfine structure of the different isotopes to play a crucial role in the collision rates. This dependence on hyperfine structure all

Ward Manchester, Angelos Vourlidas, Gabor Toth, Noe Lugaz

We numerically model the coronal mass ejection (CME) event of October 28, 2003 that erupted from active region 10486 and propagated to Earth in less than 20 hours causing severe geomagnetic storms. The magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model is formulated by first arriving at a steady state corona and solar wind employing synoptic magnetograms. We initiate two CMEs

B. R. Gadjiev, T. B. Progulova

We have obtained the Tsallis distribution from the maximum entropy approach using constraints on the first and the second moment, together with the normalization condition. We have constructed railway and highway communication networks for the Moscow region and the airline network for the Russian Federation. The fitting shows that the degree distributions fo

Carlos Hernandez-Monteagudo, Rashid A. Sunyaev

If the peculiar motion of galaxy groups and clusters indeed resembles that of the surrounding baryons, then the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) pattern of those massive halos should be closely correlated to the kSZ pattern of all surrounding electrons. Likewise, it should also be correlated to the CMB E-mode polarization field generated via Thomson scat

Michael Kiermaier, Barton Zwiebach

Due to a peculiar behavior at the open string midpoint, loop diagrams in Schnabl gauge were expected to fail to produce the relevant closed string moduli. We find that closed string moduli are generated because the Riemann surfaces are built with slanted wedges: semi-infinite strips whose edges have parameterizations related by scaling. We examine in detail

Moshe Elitzur

Observations give strong support for the unification scheme of active galactic nuclei. The scheme is premised on toroidal obscuration of the central engine by dusty clouds that are individually very optically thick. These lectures summarize the torus properties, describe the handling and implications of its clumpy nature and present speculations about its dy

Z. Dezso, R. Welch, V. Kazandaev, A. Naito

We describe a novel approach to the analysis of toxicogenomics data and elucidation of biological networks affected by drug treatments. In this method approximately 15,000 linear pathway modules were generated from manually assembled pathway maps from MetaCore (GeneGo, Inc.). Microarray expression data from livers of rat exposed to phenobarbital, mestranol a

Ning Chen, Robert Shrock

We extend to larger unification groups an earlier study exploring the possibility of unification of gauge symmetries in theories with dynamical symmetry breaking. Based on our results, we comment on the outlook for models that seek to achieve this type of unification.

P. A. Sturrock

A search for any particular feature in any single solar neutrino dataset is unlikely to establish variability of the solar neutrino flux since the count rates are very low. It helps to combine datasets, and in this article we examine data from both the Homestake and GALLEX experiments. These show evidence of modulation with a frequency of 11.85 yr-1, which c

Ahmadreza Azimifard, Ebrahim Samei, Nico Spronk

Let G be a locally compact group, and ZL1(G) be the centre of its group algebra. We show that when $G$ is compact ZL1(G) is not amenable when G is either nonabelian and connected, or is a product of infinitely many finite nonabelian groups. We also, study, for some non-compact groups G, some conditions which imply amenability and hyper-Tauberian property, fo

Redouane Al Fakir

Gravitation could modulate the interstellar scintillation of pulsars in a way that is analogous to refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS). While RISS occurs when a large ionized cloud crosses the pulsar line-of-sight, gravitational interstellar scintillation (GISS) occurs when a compact gravitational deflector lies very near to that line-of-sight. Howe

Kaushik Mitra, F. W. Strauch, C. J. Lobb, J. R. Anderson

We analyze the behavior of a dc Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) phase qubit in which one junction acts as a phase qubit and the rest of the device provides isolation from dissipation and noise in the bias leads. Ignoring dissipation, we find the two-dimensional Hamiltonian of the system and use numerical methods and a cubic approximation

T. Micklitz, Alexander Altland, Julia S. Meyer

We derive an effective low-energy theory of disordered interacting quantum wires. Our theory describes Anderson localization in the limit of vanishing dephasing and reduces to standard abelian bosonization in the limit of vanishing disorder. In a system with many transport channels, it exhibits the diffusive physics characteristic for multi-channel quantum w

Ruy Exel, Felipe Vieira

In this work we present a new definition to the Partial Crossed Product by actions of inverse semigroups in a C^*-algebra, without using the covariant representations as Sieben did in [5]. Also we present an isomorphism between the partial crossed products by partial actions of a group G and the partial crossed product by actions of S(G), an inverse semigrou

Bogdan M. Baishanski

Limit can be defined by two axioms: 1. Strict inequality between limits implies, ultimately, strict inequality between functions. 2. For constant functions limit is trivial. How can basic results on convergence be derived from these axioms? In this paper we propose two answers: a) at the most elementary level- add two more axioms, b) at somewhat higher level

Alvaro Sals, Cesar Gomez

In this paper we present the tanh method to obtain exact solutions to coupled MkDV system. This method may be applied to a variety of coupled systems of nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations.

Michael G. Richer, Marshall L. McCall

We present chemical abundances for planetary nebulae in M32, NGC 185, and NGC 205 based upon spectroscopy obtained at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope using the Multi-Object Spectrograph. From these and similar data compiled from the literature for other Local Group galaxies, we consider the origin and evolution of the stellar progenitors of bright planeta

Joseph Steiner, Aaron Anderson, Michael De Marco

A neutron howitzer was used to produce 239Np from the targets of natural U and a hot rock. An intrinsic Germanium detector enabled the observations of the gamma rays in the decay of 239Np and a determination of its half life of 2.3 days. This shows that 239Pu had been produced in both targets

Gordon McCabe

It is proposed that the physical universe is an instance of a mathematical structure which possesses a dual structure, and that this dual structure is the collection of all possible knowledge of the physical universe. In turn, the physical universe is then the dual space of the latter.

Rouba Borghol, Laurent Veron

We study the boundary behaviour of solutions $u$ of $-Δ_{N}u+ |u|^{q-1}u=0$ in a bounded smooth domain $Ω\subset\mathbb R^{N}$ subject to the boundary condition $u=0$ except at one point, in the range $q>N-1$. We prove that if $q\geq 2N-1$ such a $u$ is identically zero, while, if $N-1<q<2N-1$, $u$ inherits a boundary behaviour which either corresponds to a

Moshe Marcus, Laurent Veron

We give a global bilateral estimate on the maximal solution $\bar u_F$ of $ \prt_tu-Δu+u^q=0$ in $\BBR^N\times (0,\infty)$, $q>1$, $N\geq 1$, which vanishes at $t=0 $ on the complement of a closed subset $F\subset \BBR^N$. This estimate is expressed by a Wiener test involving the Bessel capacity $C_{2/q,q&#39;}$. We deduce from this estimate that $\bar {u}_F

Andrey Shishkov, Laurent Veron

We study the limit, when $k\to\infty$, of the solutions $u=u_{k}$ of (E) $\prt_{t}u-Δu+ h(t)u^q=0$ in $\BBR^N\ti (0,\infty)$, $u_{k}(.,0)=kδ_{0}$, with $q>1$, $h(t)>0$. If $h(t)=e^{-\gw(t)/t}$ where $\gw>0$ satisfies to $\int_{0}^1\sqrt{\gw(t)}t^{-1}dt<\infty$, the limit function $u_{\infty}$ is a solution of (E) with a single singularity at $(0,0)$, while i

Daniel Commenges, Anne Gégout-Petit

We consider first the mixed discrete-continuous scheme of observation in multistate models; this is a classical pattern in epidemiology because very often clinical status is assessed at discrete visit times while times of death or other events are observed exactly. A heuristic likelihood can be written for such models, at least for Markov models; however, a

Alessio Porretta, Laurent Veron

We prove that, if $g$ is a continuous asymptotically convex function, any solution $u$ of $-Δu+g(u)=0$ in a ball B which tends to infinity on $\partial B$ is radially symmetric.

A. Wachter, J. M. Winters, K. -P. Schröder, E. Sedlmayr

We investigate the mass loss of highly evolved, low- and intermediate mass stars and stellar samples with subsolar metallicity. We give a qualitative as well as quantitative description which can be applied to LMC/SMC-type stellar populations. For that purpose we apply the same approach as we did for solar metallicity stars and calculate hydrodynamical wind

Shung-ichi Ando, Michael C. Birse

The low-energy scattering of two charged particles is analyzed using a renormalization group approach based on dimensional regularization with power-divergence subtraction. A nontrivial solution with a marginally unstable direction is found, corresponding to a system with a bound state at zero energy. For purely energy-dependent perturbations around this sol

C. E. Thomas, F. E. Close

We show that the literature on pion exchange between charm and bottom mesons is inconsistent. We derive the formalism explicitly, expose differences between papers in the literature and clarify the implications. We show that the X(3872) can be a bound state but that results are very sensitive to a poorly constrained parameter. We confirm that bound states in

Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir, Alejandro D Rey

Two-dimensional simulations of the coarsening process of the isotropic/smectic-A phase transition are presented using a high-order Landau-de Gennes type free energy model. Defect annihilation laws for smectic disclinations, elementary dislocations, and total dislocation content are determined. The computed evolution of the orientational correlation length an

Laura Gomez, Luis F. Rodriguez, Laurent Loinard, Susana Lizano

We present absolute astrometry of four radio sources in the Becklin-Neugebauer/Kleinman-Low (BN/KL) region, derived from archival data (taken in 1991, 1995, and 2000) as well as from new observations (taken in 2006). All data consist of 3.6 cm continuum emission and were taken with the Very Large Array in its highest angular resolution A configuration. We co

M. Yu. Piotrovich, Yu. N. Gnedin, T. M. Natsvlishvili

We estimated the photon-pseudoscalar particle mixing constant from the effect of cosmological alignment and cosmological rotation of polarization plane of distant QSOs. This effect is explained in terms of birefringent phenomenon due to photon-pseudoscalar (axion-like) particle mixing in a cosmic magnetic field. On the contrary, one can estimate the strength

Pei-Ying Hsieh, Satoki Matsushita, Jeremy Lim, Kotaro Kohno

We have mapped the central region of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 1097 in 12CO(J=2-1) with the Submillieter Array (SMA). The 12CO(J=2-1) map shows a central concentration and a surrounding ring, which coincide respectively with the Seyfert nucleus and a starburst ring. The line intensity peaks at the nucleus, whereas in a previously published 12CO(J=1-0) map the

W. M. Yang, S. L. Bi

The purpose of this work was to obtain diffusion coefficient for the magnetic angular momentum transport and material transport in a rotating solar model. We assumed that the transport of both angular momentum and chemical elements caused by magnetic fields could be treated as a diffusion process. The diffusion coefficient depends on the stellar radius, angu

Tommaso Giannantonio

I present to this conference our latest measurements of the integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW) effect. After a brief review of the reasons for which this effect arises and of the technique to detect it by cross-correlating the cosmic microwave background (CMB) with the large scale structure of the Universe (LSS), I describe the current state of the art measurement

W. M. Yang, S. L. Bi

Using reconstructed opacities, we construct solar models with low heavy-element abundance. Rotational mixing and enhanced diffusion of helium and heavy elements are used to reconcile the recently observed abundances with helioseismology. The sound speed and density of models where the relative and absolute diffusion coefficients for helium and heavy elements

Ricardo Carvalho Pereira, Richard Demo Souza, Marcelo Eduardo Pellenz

In this paper we apply the concept of overlay cognitive radio to the communication between nodes in a wireless mesh network. Based on the overlay cognitive radio model, it is possible to have two concurrent transmissions in a given interference region, where usually only one communication takes place at a given time. We analyze the cases of wireless mesh net

A. Martínez Torres, K. P. Khemchandani, E. Oset

We discuss the dynamical generation of some low-lying $1/2^+$ $Σ$&#39;s and $Λ$&#39;s in two-meson one-baryon systems. These systems have been constructed by adding a pion in $S$-wave to the $\bar{K} N$ pair and its coupled channels, where the $1/2^-$ $Λ$(1405)-resonance gets dynamically generated. We solve Faddeev equations in the coupled-channel approach t

J. H. Field

A sign error in an angle while drawing the original Minkowski plot has persisted for a century in text books and the pedagogical literature. When it is corrected, the `length contraction&#39; effect derived from the geometry of the plot disappears. It is also shown how the `relativity of simultaneity&#39; effect that has been derived from the plot results fr

Ricardo J. C. Lima, Paulo T. C. Freire, Zélia S. Macedo, José M. Sasaki

The Geopark Araripe, located in Northeastern Brazil, is the first UNESCO Natural Park in the South hemisphere and a world-famous fossil deposit of the Early Cretaceous period (approximately 120 million years). Fossilized fish fauna in Geopark Araripe is found inside of sedimentary rocks in three-dimensional forms. In the present study sedimentary rocks and f

L. Craco, M. S. Laad, S. Leoni, H. Rosner

We describe the correlated electronic structure of a prototype Fe-pnictide superconductor, $SmO_{1-x}F_{x}FeAs$, using LDA+DMFT. Strong, multi-orbital electronic correlations generate a low-energy pseudogap in the undistorted phase, giving a bad, incoherent metal in qualitative agreement with observations. Very good semi-quantitative agreement with the exper

Sanjeev Kumar, Jeroen van den Brink

We study a two-dimensional Hubbard-Holstein model with phonons treated in the adiabatic limit. A Hartree-Fock decomposition is employed for the Hubbard term. A range of electronic densities are discussed with special emphasis on the quarter-filling ($n=0.5$). We argue that the quarter-filled system is relevant for the electronic properties observed at the in

Thomas J. Maccarone

With a goal of understanding the conditions under which jets might be produced in novae and related objects, I consider the conditions under which jets are produced from other classes of accreting compact objects. I give an overview of accretion disk spectral states, including a discussion of in which states these jets are seen. I highlight the differences b

Richard Cleyton

Necessary and sufficient conditions for a Riemannian product to be conformally equivalent to an Einstein manifold are given. Such spaces which are complete are characterized.

A. Angelow, D. Trifonov, V. Angelov, H. Hristov

We propose a new model for description of electrons beam dynamics in Free Electron Laser (FEL) undulator, based on the method of linear time-dependent invariants of quantum-mechanical charge particle. The magnetic field has periodic structure along the undulator. For this problem, described by time-dependent quadratic Hamiltonian, we obtain exact solution. T

Arnaud Duperrin

The energy frontier is currently at the Fermilab Tevatron accelerator, which collides protons and antiprotons at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The luminosity delivered to the CDF and D0 experiments has now surpassed the 4 fb-1. This paper reviews the most recent direct searches for Higgs bosons and beyond-the-standard-model (BSM) physics at the Tevatr

E. A. Kuraev, Yu. Bystritskiy, S. Bakmaev, V. V. Bytev

We investigate the effect of high order radiative corrections in unpolarized electron proton elastic scattering and compare with the calculations at lowest order, which are usually applied to experimental data. We show that higher order terms play a role, starting from values of the momentum transfer squared, $Q^2$, larger than the electron mass. Particular

Antar Bandyopadhyay, Jeffrey Steif, Adam Timar

We show that for any Cayley graph, the probability (at any $p$) that the cluster of the origin has size n decays at a well-defined exponential rate (possibly 0). For general graphs, we relate this rate being positive in the supercritical regime with the amenability/nonamenability of the underlying graph.

Imre Ferenc Barna, Attila Richard Imre, Laszlo Rosta, Ferenc Mezei

Two-phase flow calculations are presented to investigate the thermo-hydraulical effects of the interaction between 300 kJ proton pulses (2 ms long, 1.3 GeV) with a closed mercury loop which can be considered as a model system of the target of the planned European Spallation Source(ESS) facility. The two-fluid model consists of six first-order partial differe

T. B. Progulova, B. R. Gadjiev

We have studied transportation network, namely a road network of the Moscow region and airline network of the Russian Federation. We have constructed corresponding networks and studied degree distribution and length distribution for these networks, as well as the dependences on the average clustering coefficients and the nearest neighbours average degree as

Stefano Bianchini, Bernard Hanouzet, Roberto Natalini

We study the asymptotic time behavior of global smooth solutions to general entropy dissipative hyperbolic systems of balance law in m space dimensions, under the Shizuta-Kawashima condition. We show that these solutions approach constant equilibrium state in the Lp-norm at a rate O(t^(-m/2(1-1/p))), as t tends to $\infty$, for p in [min (m,2),+ \infty]. Mor

Lien-Hsuan Lin, Chi Yuan, R. Buta

NGC 6782 is an early-type barred spiral galaxy exhibiting a rich and complex morphology with multiple ring patterns. To provide a physical understanding of its structure and kinematical properties, two-dimensional hydrodynamical simulations have been carried out. Numerical calculations reveal that the striking features in NGC 6782 can be reproduced provided

A. Tawfik

We study the dynamical fluctuations of various particle yield ratios at different incident energies. Assuming that the particle production yields in the hydronic final state are due to equilibrium chemical processes ($γ=1$), the experimental results available so far are compared with the hadron resonance gas model (HRG) taking into account the limited moment

M. L. Pumo, L. Siess, R. A. Zappala&#39;

Based on evolutionary computations of 90 stellar models, we have analysed the impact of initial composition and core overshooting on the post-He-burning evolution and the associated nucleosynthesis of Super-AGB stars, pointing particular attention on the C-burning phase. Moreover the possible link between the transition masses $M_{up}$, $M_{N}$ and $M_{mas}$

C. Etz, J. Zabloudil, P. Weinberger, E. Y. Vedmedenko

In using the fully relativistic versions of the Embedded Cluster and Screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker methods for semi-infinite systems the magnetic properties of single adatoms of Fe and Co on Ir(111) and Pt(111) are studied. It is found that for Pt(111) Fe and Co adatoms are strongly perpendicularly oriented, while on Ir(111) the orientation of the magnetiz

V. Costa, M. L. Pumo, A. Bonanno, R. A. Zappala&#39;

Current models of s-nucleosynthesis in massive stars ($M\sim15 M_{\odot}$ to $\sim 30 M_{\odot}$) are able to reproduce some main features of the abundance distributions of heavy isotopes in the solar system, at least in the $A\sim 60-90$ mass range. The efficiency of the process and the above specified mass range for the s-nuclei are still heavily uncertain

Cristian Micheletti, Giovanni Bussi, Alessandro Laio

We introduce a scheme for deriving an optimally-parametrised Langevin dynamics of few collective variables from data generated in molecular dynamics simulations. The drift and the position-dependent diffusion profiles governing the Langevin dynamics are expressed as explicit averages over the input trajectories. The proposed strategy is applicable to cases w

J. Larsson, A. C. Fabian, D. R. Ballantyne, G. Miniutti

We report on a 90 ks Suzaku observation of the radio-loud quasar 4C +74.26. The source was observed in its highest flux state to date, and we find that it brightened by about 20 per cent during the observation. We see evidence of spectral hardening as the count rate increases and also find that the rms variability increases with energy up to about 4 keV. We

Anne Verhamme, Daniel Schaerer, Hakim Atek, Christian Tapken

The Aim of our study is to understand the variety of observed Lyman-alpha (Lya) line profiles and strengths in Lyman Break Galaxies (LBGs) and Lya emitters (LAEs), the physical parameters governing them, and hence deriving constraints on the gas and dust content and stellar populations of these objects. Using our 3D Lya radiation transfer code including gas

R. Schiavilla, M. Viviani, L. Girlanda, A. Kievsky

The neutron spin rotation induced by parity-violating (PV) components in the nucleon-nucleon potential is studied in \vec{n}-d scattering at zero energy. Results are obtained corresponding to the Argonne v_{18} two-nucleon and Urbana-IX three-nucleon strong-interaction potentials in combination with either the DDH or pionless EFT model for the weak-interacti

Massimo Mannarelli, Cristina Manuel

We discuss the properties of the collective modes of a system composed by a thermalized quark-gluon plasma traversed by a relativistic jet of partons. The transport equations obeyed by the components of the plasma and of the jet are studied in the Vlasov approximation. Assuming that the partons in the jet can be described with a tsunami-like distribution fun

Suguru Dobashi, Katsushi Ito, Koh Iwasaki

We study gluon scattering amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at strong coupling via the AdS/CFT correspondence. We solve numerically the discretized Euler-Lagrange equations on the square worldsheet for the minimal surface with light-like boundaries in AdS spacetime. We evaluate the area of the surface for the 4, 6 and 8-point amplitudes using worldsh

Gao-Feng Gu, Wei-Xing Zhou

Recently, Mike and Farmer have constructed a very powerful and realistic behavioral model to mimick the dynamic process of stock price formation based on the empirical regularities of order placement and cancelation in a purely order-driven market, which can successfully reproduce the whole distribution of returns, not only the well-known power-law tails, to

Arabinda Haldar, K. G. Suresh, A. K. Nigam

Ce(Fe_{1-x}Ga_x)_2 compounds with x = 0, 0.01, 0.025 and 0.05 have been investigated to unravel the effect of Ga on the magnetic state of CeFe_2. For the first time, we find that the dynamic antiferromagnetic phase present in CeFe_2 gets stabilized with Ga substitution. The hysteresis loops show that while the compounds with x = 0 and 0.01 show normal behavi

Daniel Waltner, Martha Gutierrez, Arseni Goussev, Klaus Richter

We address the decay in open chaotic quantum systems and calculate semiclassical corrections to the classical exponential decay. We confirm random matrix predictions and, going beyond, calculate Ehrenfest time effects. To support our results we perform extensive numerical simulations. Within our approach we show that certain (previously unnoticed) pairs of i

Naomi Kawano, Yasushi Fukazawa, Sho Nishino, Kazuhiro Nakazawa

Clusters of galaxies are among the best candidates for particle acceleration sources in the universe, a signature of which is non-thermal hard X-ray emission from the accelerated relativistic particles. We present early results on Suzaku observations of non-thermal emission from Abell 3376, which is a nearby on-going merger cluster. Suzaku observed the clust

Horatiu Nastase

In this talk I will review my work on the description of high energy scattering in QCD, in particular the fireball observed at RHIC, as well as predictions for the LHC. The aim is to see how much we can learn about actual QCD (nonsupersymmetric, $N_c=3$), without knowing the details of the gravity dual of QCD. Experimental predictions are consistent with dat

Takeshi Osada, Grzegorz Wilk

We argue that there is profound correspondence (the nonextensive/dissipative correspondence - NexDC) between the perfect nonextensive hydrodynamics and the usual dissipative hydrodynamics which leads to simple expression for dissipative entropy current.

A. M. Haruar Rashid, A. L. Choudhury

In a recent model Choudhury proposed that a collapsing matter generates an adiabatic pressure which can be used to explain the acceleration of the physical universe under certain approximation. In this work we superimpose the core pressure generated through the entropy of the blackhole. We have ignored the blackhole internal energy change during this process

Sam Vakil, Ben Liang

The problem of communication among nodes in an \emph{extended network} is considered, where radio power decay and interference are limiting factors. It has been shown previously that, with simple multi-hopping, the achievable total communication rate in such a network is at most $Θ(\sqrt{N})$. In this work, we study the benefit of node cooperation in conjunc

M. Gurvitch, S. Luryi, A. Polyakov, A. Shabalov

In the resistive phase transition in VO2, temperature excursions from points on the major hysteresis loop produce minor loops. We have found that for sufficiently small excursions these minor loops degenerate into single-valued, non-hysteretic branches (NHBs) having essentially the same or even higher temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) as the semico

Alister W. Graham, C. C. Worley

While galactic bulges may contain no significant dust of their own, the dust within galaxy discs can strongly attenuate the light from their embedded bulges. Furthermore, such dust inhibits the ability of observationally-determined inclination corrections to recover intrinsic (i.e. dust free) galaxy parameters. Using the sophisticated 3D radiative transfer m

J. R. Shi, T. Gehren, K. Butler, L. I. Mashonkina

The statistical equilibrium of neutral and ionised silicon in the solar photosphere is investigated. Line formation is discussed and the solar silicon abundance determined. High-resolution solar spectra were used to determine solar $\log gfε_{\rm Si}$ values by comparison with Si line synthesis based on LTE and NLTE level populations. The results will be use

Takayoshi Tanaka, Sumio Ishihara

Finite temperature orbital state in a ferromagnetic Mott insulator with triply-degenerate $t_{2g}$ orbital is investigated numerically. We employ the quantum Monte Carlo simulation with the loop algorithm. Indications for conventional staggered-type orbital order are not remarkable down to the lowest temperature to which the present simulation can get access

Z. Q. Liu, X. S. Qin, C. Z. Yuan

A combined fit is performed to the BaBar and Belle measurements of the e+e- to pi+pi-psi(2S) cross sections for center-of-mass energy between threshold and 5.5 GeV. The resonant parameters of the Y(4360) and Y(4660) are determined. The mass is 4355^{+9}_{-10}\pm 9 MeV/c^2 and the width is 103^{+17}_{-15}\pm 11 MeV/c^2 for the Y(4360), and the mass is 4661^{+

Yong-Joo Doh, Silvano De Franceschi, Erik P. A. M. Bakkers, Leo P. Kouwenhoven

Semiconductor nanowires provide promising low-dimensional systems for the study of quantum transport phenomena in combination with superconductivity. Here we investigate the competition between the Coulomb blockade effect, Andreev reflection, and quantum interference, in InAs and InP nanowires connected to aluminum-based superconducting electrodes. We compar

Howard Barnum, Jonathan Barrett, Matthew Leifer, Alexander Wilce

In a previous paper, we showed that many important quantum information-theoretic phenomena, including the no-cloning and no-broadcasting theorems, are in fact generic in all non-classical probabilistic theories. An exception is teleportation, which most such theories do not support. In this paper, we investigate which probabilistic theories, and more particu

Tatsuhiko Yagasaki

Suppose M is a noncompact connected oriented C^infty n-manifold and omega is a positive volume form on M. Let D^+(M) denote the group of orientation preserving diffeomorphisms of M endowed with the compact-open C^infty topology and D(M; omega) denote the subgroup of omega-preserving diffeomorphisms of M. In this paper we propose a unified approach for realiz

Delia Schwartz-Perlov

The assumption of a flat prior distribution plays a critical role in the anthropic prediction of the cosmological constant. In a previous paper we analytically calculated the distribution for the cosmological constant, including the prior and anthropic selection effects, in a large toy ``single-jump'' landscape model. We showed that it is possible for the fr

Esther Galina

We associate to each nilpotent orbit of a real semisimple Lie algebra $g_o$ a weighted Vogan diagram, that is a Dynkin diagram with an involution of the diagram, a subset of painted nodes and a weight for each node. Every nilpotent element of $g_o$ is noticed in some subalgebra of $g_o$. In this paper we characterize the weighted Vogan diagrams associated to

M. Ribordy

We report on the current construction status of the IceCube high energy neutrino observatory and possible future construction plans. With the completion of the fourth construction season in Feb. 2008, the observatory is now instrumenting half a cubic kilometer of ice, greatly increasing the horizon for high energy neutrino detection. We briefly describe phys

John M. Robinson, Herbert C. Cheung, Wenji Dong

The Ca-sensitive regulatory switch of cardiac muscle is a paradigmatic example of protein assemblies that communicate ligand binding through allosteric change. The switch is a dimeric complex of troponin C (TnC), an allosteric sensor for Ca, and troponin I (TnI), an allosteric reporter. Time-resolved equilibrium FRET measurements suggest that the switch acti

Mikhail Khenner

We compare dewetting characteristics of a thin nonwetting solid film in the absence of stress, for two models of a wetting potential: the exponential and the algebraic. The exponential model is a one-parameter (r) model, and the algebraic model is a two-parameter (r,m) model, where r is the ratio of the characteristic wetting length to the height of the unpe

Michael Gekhtman, Michael Shapiro, Alek Vainshtein

We investigate Poisson properties of Postnikov&#39;s map from the space of edge weights of a planar directed network into the Grassmannian. We show that this map is Poisson if the space of edge weights is equipped with a representative of a 6-parameter family of universal quadratic Poisson brackets and the Grasmannian is viewed as a Poisson homogeneous space

V. A. Avetisov, A. Kh. Bikulov, S. K. Nechaev

We study the statistical and dynamic properties of the systems characterized by an ultrametric space of states and translationary non-invariant symmetric transition matrices of the Parisi type subjected to &#34;locally constant&#34; randomization. Using the explicit expression for eigenvalues of such matrices, we compute the spectral density for the Gaussian

Ying Xu, Vladimir E Korepin

The Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) spin interacting model can be defined on an arbitrary graph. We explain the construction of the AKLT Hamiltonian. Given certain conditions, the ground state is unique and known as the Valence-Bond-Solid (VBS) state. It can be used in measurement-based quantum computation as a resource state instead of the cluster state.

Massimiliano Di Ventra

This is a comment to a review article by Lindsay and Ratner titled &#34;Molecular Transport Junctions: Clearing Mists&#34;.

Philip F. Hopkins, Thomas J. Cox, Suvendra N. Dutta, Lars Hernquist

We study the origin and properties of &#39;extra&#39; or &#39;excess&#39; central light in the surface brightness profiles of cusp or power-law ellipticals. Dissipational mergers give rise to two-component profiles: an outer profile established by violent relaxation acting on stars present in the progenitors prior to the final merger, and an inner stellar po

Norman Margolus

Quantum dynamics can be regarded as a generalization of classical finite-state dynamics. This is a familiar viewpoint for workers in quantum computation, which encompasses classical computation as a special case. Here this viewpoint is extended to mechanics, where classical dynamics has traditionally been viewed as a macroscopic approximation of quantum beha

Kimitake Hayasaki

It is still unknown how the BBH evolves after its semi-major axis reached to the sub-parsec/parsec scale where the dynamical friction with the neighboring stars is no longer effective (the so-called the final parsec problem). In this paper, we propose a new mechanism by which the massive BBH can naturally coalesce within a Hubble time. We study the evolution

Raj Gandhi, Pomita Ghoshal, Srubabati Goswami, S. Uma Sankar

This paper is withdrawn and a corrected, extended and more comprehensive paper is put on as arXiv:0905.2382.

Natalia Silberstein

The projective space of order $n$ over a finite field $\F_q$ is a set of all subspaces of the vector space $\F_q^{n}$. In this work, we consider error-correcting codes in the projective space, focusing mainly on constant dimension codes. We start with the different representations of subspaces in the projective space. These representations involve matrices i

D. Huybrechts, R. P. Thomas

We give a universal approach to the deformation-obstruction theory of objects of the derived category of coherent sheaves over a smooth projective family. We recover and generalise the obstruction class of Lowen and Lieblich, and prove that it is a product of Atiyah and Kodaira--Spencer classes. This allows us to obtain deformation-invariant virtual cycles o

Kai Sun, Benjamin M. Fregoso, Michael J. Lawler, Eduardo Fradkin

We discuss the quantum phase transition between a quantum nematic metallic state to an electron metallic smectic state in terms of an order-parameter theory coupled to fermionic quasiparticles. Both commensurate and incommensurate smectic (or stripe) cases are studied. Close to the quantum critical point (QCP), the spectrum of fluctuations of the nematic pha

Thomas W. Grimm, Albrecht Klemm

We study the mediation of supersymmetry breaking triggered by background fluxes in Type II string compactifications with N=1 supersymmetry. The mediation arises due to an U(1) vector multiplet coupling to both a hidden supersymmetry breaking flux sector and a visible D-brane sector. The required internal manifolds can be constructed by non-Kaehler resolution

Amy C. Cassidy, Douglas Mason, Vanja Dunjko, Maxim Olshanii

We study the threshold for chaos and its relation to thermalization in the 1D mean-field Bose-Hubbard model, which in particular describes atoms in optical lattices. We identify the threshold for chaos, which is finite in the thermodynamic limit, and show that it is indeed a precursor of thermalization. Far above the threshold, the state of the system after

Mayer Humi

Long's equation describes two dimensional stratified atmospheric flow over terrain which is represented by the geometry of the domain. The solutions of this equation over simple topography were investigated analytically and numerically by many authors. In this paper we derive a new terrain following formulation of this equation which incorporates the terrain

Giorgi Japaridze

Computability logic (CL) (see http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~giorgi/cl.html) is a recently launched program for redeveloping logic as a formal theory of computability, as opposed to the formal theory of truth that logic has more traditionally been. Formulas in it represent computational problems, &#34;truth&#34; means existence of an algorithmic solution, and pro